General
- Anthropic raises $13B at valuation of $183B.
- General Social Agents. The paper shows that modern LLMs can be used to simulate social science experiments (c.f. other examples).
- Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change: Evidence from U.S. Résumé and Job Posting Data. The study finds that AI is leading to senior-biased effects; where they actualize gains at the expense of juniors (who see fewer hiring opportunities).
Research Insights
- BED-LLM: Intelligent Information Gathering with LLMs and Bayesian Experimental Design. Apple and Oxford demonstrate improvements in problem-solving by teaching AI agents to ask high-quality questions.
- How large language models encode theory-of-mind: a study on sparse parameter patterns. ToM is fragile in the sense that perturbing a small subset (0.001%) of weights degrades it.
LLM
- Apertus is a fully open LLM (weights), trained on open datasets and released open-source. Made in Switzerland.
Audio
- ElevenLabs introduces an improved sound effects model.
Science
- Optical generative models. They implement diffusion-based image generation in an optical computing scheme.
- OpenAI announces “OpenAI for Science”. Details forthcoming, but it appears to be an attempt to demonstrate the utility of existing models for science.
- Continued work by Meta AI on mapping brain activation using AI methods: Disentangling the Factors of Convergence between Brains and Computer Vision Models.
Robots
- Impressive video demonstrating ability of a humanoid robot to play table tennis.